Shaili Jain

Software Engineer, Googleshailij AT gmail DOT com

I am a software engineer at Google, as part of the Ads Metrics Team.
Previously, I was an applied researcher at Microsoft working on display advertising. Before that, I was a postdoc at Yale University
hosted by Joan Feigenbaum.
I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2010 at
Harvard University,
where I was advised by David Parkes.

My work was generously supported by an NSF-CRA Computing Innovations Fellowship,
an AT&T Labs Fellowship,
an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship,
and a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.

Winner-Take-All Crowdsourcing Contests with Stochastic Production
with Ruggiero Cavallo
HCOMP 2013pdf
An earlier version appeared at the Workshop on Social Computing and User Generated Content (held in conjunction with ACM EC '12)

Efficient Crowdsourcing Contests
with Ruggiero Cavallo
AAMAS 2012pdf
A shorter version was presented at the AAAI Spring Symposium on Wisdom of the Crowd, 2012

Combinatorial Agency of Threshold Functions
with David C. Parkes
Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT), 2011conference version (pdf)full version (pdf)
An earlier version appeared at the Workshop on Social Computing and User Generated Content, 2011

A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the ESP Game
with David C. Parkes
ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation (TEAC), Vol. 1, No. 1, Jan. 2013pdf
An earlier version appeared in WINE 2008 (see below)

Designing Incentives for Online Question and Answer Forums
with Yiling Chen and David C. Parkes
Games and Economic Behavior (GEB), 2012 (forthcoming)pdf
An earlier version appeared in ACM EC 2009 (see below)

The Role of Game Theory in Human Computation Systems (Position Paper)
with David C. Parkes
HCOMP 2009pdf

An Economically-Principled Generative Model of AS Graph Connectivity
with Jacomo Corbo, Michael Mitzenmacher, and David C. Parkes
Infocom 2009 Mini-Conferencepdf
An earlier version was presented at the NetEcon+IBM Workshop, 2007 (see below)

A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Games with a Purpose
with David C. Parkes
WINE 2008pdf

An Approximation to the Greedy Algorithm for Differential Compression
with R. Agarwal, K. Gupta, and S. Amalapurapu
IBM Journal of Research and Development, January 2006 pdf

An Approximation to the Greedy Algorithm for Differential Compression of Very Large Files
with R. Agarwal and S. Amalapurapu
Proceedings of the Data Compression Conference (DCC), 2004 1-page abstract (pdf)longer version (pdf)